Working Life

  This is a post simply suggesting we ponder what it means to live in a conflicted, grey world. Yeah, I hate that. It would be nice if everything was clear cut. But, it isn’t. Especially for people who are trying to survive in a corrupt economic system.   On the one hand, I am […]

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   Here is part of our predicament. The Tea Party-Republican wing of the political space is filled with lunatics–they want to turn the country back to the 1920s. Too many Democrats have forgotten what it once meant to be a "Democrat". But, the plague of disinformation and stupidity that will cost people their lives is […]

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  Just to return some reality to the discussion–and reassert facts made a number of times by a variety of people…though I argue that there is no debt or deficit "crisis", if you want to figure out where the money is, it’s all about war, corporate welfare and the Bush tax cuts. This needs to […]

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   I’ve never been a fan of "bi-partisanship". When someone is out to kill you, or your nation and community, making a deal for the sake of "bi-partisanship" or "compromise" makes no sense when the end result is injustice and a worsening of our lives. But, that’s where we are today because of a completely […]

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   If you aren’t willing to stand up to the greed and robbery going on in the country, here’s what happens: For the first time a generic “Republican Party candidate” is favored by a statistically significant margin over President Barack Obama, the Gallup polling firm said. According to a Gallup poll released Thursday, 47% of […]

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    What is with our city? We keep attracting the worse of the Tea Party, union-busting Republicans in the nation. First, Scott Walker was in town so two weeks ago to shake the Republican money tree–and we treated him to a Bronx cheer. Today, his Tea Party, low-life, colleague John Kasich came to town for […]

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    Scott Walker is bringing his anti middle-class, union-busting act to New York City–and we can show him, on behalf of all Wisconsin workers and workers throughout the nation, that he is not welcome in New York City.  Walker is the featured speaker at a fundraiser for the Republican National Committee at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel–which […]

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   This past Friday, I was standing on the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis at a Laborers rally to push for massive infrastructure investment as a way to create jobs, and rebuild the country. In an obvious way and a less obvious way, standing on the bridge spanning the Mississippi gives one a clear understanding […]

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   It’s one thing for progressive economists and activists to see the emptiness and complete foolishness of Tim Pawlenty’s "economic plan". It’s another thing for perhaps the globe’s leading financial newspaper to dismiss it as something that is "difficult to describe without seeming to parody it." But, The Financial Times Clive Crook makes a valiant […]

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    When you swim with piranhas and think they are your friends, well, you’ll eventually get a rude lesson. Especially if you do just a little thing to hurt their interests. So, it is with the folks on Wall Street, and, in particular, the hedge fund world: they are pouring huge amounts of money into […]

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